 But this momentous question, like a firebell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line,...  The Quarterly Review - Página 2501862Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Allen Johnson - 1921 - 376 páginas
...Jefferson had little faith in the permanency of such a settlement. "A geographical line," said he, "coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." And Madison, usually optimistic about the future of... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1921 - 704 páginas
...hushed indeed for the moment. But this as a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...passions of men will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." John Quincy Adams saw in the Missouri question the... | |
 | Edward Channing - 1921 - 648 páginas
...statement and also a keen prophecy : — "A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle moral & political once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated." Writings of Jefferson (Ford), x, 157 and in many other places. In 1821, Calhoun, writing to Charles... | |
 | William Henry Hudson, Irwin Scofield Guernsey - 1922 - 778 páginas
...hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...passions of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new irritation will mark it deeper 328 and deeper."1 Adams believed that the Missouri Compromise was... | |
 | William Cabell Bruce - 1922 - 728 páginas
...which we have just quoted : "But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle — moral and political...once conceived and held up to the angry passions of man, will not be obliterated; and every new irritation will make it deeper and deeper." It is to be... | |
 | State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Meeting - 1917 - 396 páginas
...such power. Quoting from a letter of Thomas Jefferson to a Mr. Holmes, in 1820, "A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper," and stating that "it is this very coincidence of geographical... | |
 | 1942 - 584 páginas
...hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. I can say, with conscious truth, that there is not a... | |
 | State Historical Society of Wisconsin - 1917 - 392 páginas
...such power. Quoting from a letter of Thomas Jefferson to a Mr. Holmes, in 1820, "A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...passions of men, will never be obliterated,, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper," and stating that "it is this very coincidence of geographical... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1970 - 420 páginas
...reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line [dividing free and slave territory] . . . once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper. . . . There is not a man on earth who would sacrifice... | |
 | Robert Franklin Durden - 1985 - 166 páginas
...hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political,...passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." Jefferson went on to insist that there was "not a man... | |
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